AOS Smoke Bombs, spins, a new fast lap at Roebling, and one that was a second faster

[heymanwatchthis]

March 3 is for Harmony Motors, the Porsche dealer in Asheville. Apparently some of the local PCA guys will participate as instructors, I am really looking forward to it!

Thanks for the advice about rpm in turns, that makes sense. I just added the 997 TB and plenum so look forward to using the extra torque at the lower rpms.

Another seat question - my car is not a DD but since I live in the mountains of western North Carolina drive it whenever I can. I think the stock seats suck. I want a seat that holds in mountian curves, would work for occasional DE's, would be reasonably comfortable for a few hours drives (to tracks) and not a pain getting in and out driving around town. I dont have a shop nearby that stocks seats so cannot try them out.

Why the Profi vs Pole Position? The PP seems to be popular as it is basically same as the GT3 bucket, and looks like has a low bolster towards front of seat, facilitating getting in/out of the car.

Thanks!

[steved0x]

Originally Posted by heymanwatchthis

Why the Profi vs Pole Position? The PP seems to be popular as it is basically same as the GT3 bucket, and looks like has a low bolster towards front of seat, facilitating getting in/out of the car.

Thanks!

A couple reasons, but before that I think the Profile XL and Pole Position are virtually the same at the base and width for seating (where the regular Profi is *tiny* and smaller than the Pole Position). The differ in the back and shoulders, with the Profi XL having wider wings and bigger holes for the shoulder belt.

For me, the Pole Position looks like the shoulder harness belts are too low for my shoulders and optimal angles, the harness would drop down from the Boxster roll bars, through the seat, and then up and over my shoulders. That would not be optimal as it would compress heavily down on my spine in the case of an accident.

Then I scored a deal on a Profi XL with mounting hardware from Mike Yi of this forum (although I think he sold his car and is no longer on here) and that led me to that seat.

I am 6'2", 36" waist and 34" inseam, and the Profi XL is a perfect match for me. AS long as I remember to take my wallet out of my back right pocket it is comfortable for long drives of 3-4 hours.

The seat belt receptacle was actually the tricky part and before I got that sorted it was a pain to drive when using the OEM seat belt because the receptacle was way down there. I have an extender now and that solved it for me.

The first time I drove on track with the seat I had just the OEM seat belt and it worked pretty well, the seat provides tons of lateral support and made a difference even with only the OEM seatbelt.

If you could score a seat of the GT3 "Alien eyes" seats that would be perfect, sets with sliders come up for around $3000 from time to time.

One of the biggest challenges and expenses of mounting racing seats is all the hardware, side brackets, adapters and sliders to mount it in the car. Add $300-$400 to the price of each seat if you want to do it right. That makes a pair of $3000 GT3 seats with sliders seem like a better bargain... and it is all OEM Porsche to boot.

Here is a very nice installation in a Boxster that I found, and I think it belongs to a member here, with what I think is a custom harness routing bar from Stable Energies to give the correct geometry for the shoulder belts.



This wouldn't work for me because my torso is too tall. Otherwise if I had found a set of PP I most likely would have gotten them vs the Profi XL.